Internship: Collaborative Legged Robots

3 months ago


Cambridge, United States Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

MERL is seeking a highly motivated and qualified intern to collaborate with the Control for Autonomy team in research on control and planning algorithms for legged robots for support activities of and collaboration with humans. The ideal candidate is expected to be working towards a PhD with strong emphasis in robotics control and planning and to have interest and background in as many as possible of: motion planning algorithms, control for legged robot locomotions, legged robots, perception and sensing with multiple sensors, SLAM, vision-based control. Good programming skills in Python or C/C++ are required. The expected start of of the internship is flexible, with duration of 3--6 months.

Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, Robotics

Contact: Stefano Di Cairano

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